As If Only - Softcover

Davidson, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905700083 ISBN 13: 9781905700080

Verlag: Shearsman Books, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The author says of this book: These poems were written in Bangor, in north Wales, in Barcelona, in London, on the Baltic coast and in Fez and Marrakech. Despite the distances involved they are the result of a period of introspection and self-possession. Travel doesn't necessarily broaden the mind. In some cases only the long lines would do, and the language had to be chewed over, while in others, when the town was quiet and the blood had stopped pounding in my head, I could clip the tone and measure out the words a few at a time. A lot happened in the two years in which these poems were written. There was a war, and there were bombs in London. There were things hardly possible to deal with, including the return of an imperialist and colonialist attitude that I thought was part of history and would never return in my lifetime. Some of that gets in the poems. But I was mainly interested in myself, and how I'd got the way I had. How the traces of a life had marked the skin.

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Ian Davidson was born in 1957 and has lived most of his life in Wales. He currently teaches writing and literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, and completed a PhD in contemporary poetry in 2003. He lives in Anglesey.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1905700083
• ISBN 13: 9781905700080
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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